SO... Riddick this weekend? Yes/Yes? Hands up who loves Vin Diesel! Two hands up who loves Katee Sackhoff! (ME!) Dear lord, if there were an article designed to get me into the theater...

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This is really awful--though only a tenuous Bollywood connection--the author who inspired Escape from Taliban was killed by the Taliban.

“I still remember the day I stepped on Indian soil for the first time after I had left,” she said. “It was raining outside. People were scurrying for shelter. But I didn’t run. I just stood there and let the rain wash off my pain. I felt if I could bear so much in Afghanistan, I can surely bear my motherland’s rain. I don’t know how long I stood there, but I won’t forget that day.”

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DNA has a list of films that deal with rising prices and stagnant salaries.

Films are not mathematics, that’s the first thing you need to understand. At least that’s how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfil the vision of an individual who is the director of the film. Everybody needs to believe in that vision and it needs to become everybody’s vision. I think the dynamics of the relationships are actually what make great films. That’s what I have learned. I am not saying that scripts are not important, scripts are extremely important, but if somebody was to ask me what is more important, I would say the person I am working with and I will start with the director of the film.

Like, for a start, don't work with Kunal Kohli because that's where the flop starts.